The Ethereum community having worries about the rationalist idea of "politics is a mind-killer".
My take is that @VladZamfir kind of has a point. The rationalists went with "no politics plz!" and then got substantially infiltrated and taken over by a certain political strain.https://twitter.com/VladZamfir/status/1101678279399034881 …
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a movement becoming increasingly susceptible to influence from political currents popular among young educated people seems to me like the default mostly-unavoidable case instead of evidence that something went especially wrong
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"Shut up and avoid the mostly-unavoidable"? The diffusion gradient should point in the other direction: the movement pulling in young educated people to refine its original vision, rather than the original vision getting entropically "influenced"http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/construction-beacons/ …
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I will just defer to the link that
@zackmdavis posted. "Politics is the Mind Killer" functioned as a way of "suppressing the calling-out of errors" in the early LW days: it was used against me, and it was the only argument that pulled all the third parties to my opponents.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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